Added donations time based
Of course you can, a really nice guy specifically asked me to add a system to automatically donate some of his hash power to the minera donation pool and so I did it.
Here is the small FAQ you can find in the settings page about the time donation (copy/paste):
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How does time donation work?
It's really simple, you can select how many minutes per day you want to donate to Minera, you can choose between 15 minutes and 6 hours. If you leave it at zero minutes, time donation will be disabled. If you enabled it, every day Minera will automatically switch to the donation pool for the amount of time you select. When the period is over Minera switches back to your main pool. Pool switches are on the fly, so it doesn't need to restart anything.
What does happen if Minera reboot/shutdown/stop during the donation period?
Absolutely nothing. I mean, if your Minera system got problems while is running on the donation pool (for example it reboots for power outage), it just restart hashing on the main pool set. It won't retry to switch the donation pool until the day after.
How do you calculate the worth of the donation?
It's really approximate because I simply divide the time in minutes you donate per a fixed average profitability of 0.0018 BTC/Day, the function is: 0.0018 / 24 / 60 x donation_minutes.
What do you do with the money received?
Thanks to your kindly donations I could, for example, buy some of the new hardware coming out to add its support in Minera. So next time there will be a new cool hardware, Minera will be ready to accept it. And of course, I need beer to do all this cool stuff
Anyway, I wanna really thank you for all you support and appreciation!
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